Guilford

Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial State Historic Site
The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial State Historic Site serves as a memorial to Dr. Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute and acts as a link to larger themes of education and social history in North Carolina. The first state historic site honoring the contributions of African Americans is located at the old Palmer Memorial Institute campus and features exhibits on academics and sports at PMI, audiovisual presentations about Dr. Brown and the history of the school, and tours of campus buildings. Dr. Brown's home, Canary Cottage, restored and furnished as it was in Brown's tenure, also is open to the public.

Angela Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum
Adjoining the Furniture Discovery Center is the Angela Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum featuring over 1,600 dolls from all over the world including a huge Shirley Temple collection.

Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library
The Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library, established in 1972 as a non-profit educational center, houses the world's largest collection of books on the history of furniture - over 70,000 volumes. The collection encompasses significant volumes published worldwide since 1640 and includes a complete collection of the original works of 18th-century furniture masters Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite, as well as a complete set of Diderot's Encyclopedia. The collection is non-circulating and is open to the public.

High Point Museum
The High Point Museum collects, preserves and interprets the history of greater High Point to develop, encourage and foster a shared understanding and appreciation of our community through a knowledge of its past. The High Point Museum is the only place to learn, play and explore the real history of High Point. The permanent exhibit traces the history of High Point from the beginning until present day commemorating our local celebrities and showcase varied industries and businesses. Our historic park, open year round on the weekends, features costumed interpreters, including the 1786 John Haley House, 1801 Hoggatt House and a blacksmith shop c. 1841.

Greensboro College
Art Department
Greensboro College owns and periodically displays three permanent collections of art, the Ruth Abbott Clarke Collection, the Callie Braswell Collection, and the original Print Collection, as well as other miscellaneous pieces of two- and three-dimensional art.

Greensboro Historical Museum
The Greensboro Historical Museum collects, preserves and displays archival material, textiles, photographs and artifacts associated with Greensboro and Guilford County. Exhibits include the Greensboro Sit Ins with part of the Woolworth's lunch counter, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, author and Greensboro native O.Henry (William Sidney Porter) and Dolley Madison, North Carolina's only First Lady. The Richardson Historic Park, located behind the museum, features the Isley and McNairy Houses along with sculpture and artifacts. The newest exhibit, Welcome to the Gate City!, invites visitors to experience daily life in turn of the 20th century Greensboro by visiting reconstructed commercial and civic buildings, including a schoolhouse, firehouse, drugstore, theatre, hotel, and telephone exchange.

Greensboro Children's Museum
The Greensboro Children's Museum encourages learning and the development of social skills through play using interactive exhibits and special programs. The environment is designed so that children and parents can interact in the large, colorful, and fun space. Special collections at the museum include the model train collection, Native American artifacts, a stamp collection, and an assortment of vehicles, including fire engines and a NASCAR stock car.

Guilford College
Art Gallery
The Guilford College Art Gallery houses and exhibits a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional works of art. Significant collections include the Rachel and Allen Weller Collection, the Ruth and Ira Julian Collection, and the A. Kelly Maness, Jr., Collection of West & Central African Art. Although 20th century American art is emphasized, the collection also features internationally renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Dali, works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, an impressive selection of contemporary Polish etchings and engravings, and a small collection of Josef and Anni Albers art and archival material. The Art Gallery seeks to enrich the educational and cultural environment of the campus and greater Greensboro area through exhibitions and programming, and to preserve the college's permanent collection of art.

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park protects and preserves the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford Courthouse fought March 15, 1781. Educational exhibits in the visitor center museum interpret many artifacts original to the site as well as representative of the time period. Visitors can tour the battlefield, view the many monuments honoring individuals who played prominent roles in the battle and the American Revolution and commemorating various specific events of the battle, and enjoy the over two miles of walking trails that meander through the grounds.

Preservation Greensboro, Inc.
Blandwood
Blandwood, home of former North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, is a treasure of architectural and historical significance located in the heart of downtown Greensboro. Registered as a National Historic Landmark, the design created by noted Nineteenth Century architect Alexander Jackson Davis makes Blandwood the oldest example of Italianate architecture in the United States. The house is interpreted as it was during the Morehead family residency with particular emphasis on 1846-1860. Much of the furnishings, decorative arts, books, and photographs on display are original to the Morehead family.

Natural Science Center of Greensboro
The Natural Science Center and Animal Discovery of Greensboro is a one stop shop for science. The facility combines the finest features of an AZA accredited zoological park and an AAM accredited science museum all in one creative, compelling and cost-effective destination. Live-action science shows, the new full-immersion 3-D OmniSphere Theater, a 22 acre 'adaptation-themed' zoo and 68,000 square feet of museum exhibition space all provide fun and interactive experiences for all ages.

Historic Jamestown Society
Mendenhall Plantation
The Historic Jamestown Society investigates, preserves, and makes available the history of Jamestown, its environs, and its people. Towards that end, this society preserves and maintains and opens to the public the Mendenhall Plantation, an 1811 Quaker home and farm. At the Mendenhall Plantation, visitors each year enter "The Other South" of 19th century dissenters, and learn of their anti-slavery and pacifist views, their respect for education, honesty, equality, and self-reliance.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina A & T State University Galleries
The collections of the University Galleries are the stories of the African Diaspora told on canvas, textiles, in sculpture, music and with personal possessions. The University Galleries has two focal collections which constitute its permanent collection: the Mattye Reed African Heritage Collection, dedicated to the ancestral and contemporary arts of Africa and the Caribbean and the Henry Clinton Taylor Collection which centers around the work of both emerging and established African American artists. Both collections and three magnificent gallery spaces are housed in the historic Dudley Building, originally built in 1931.

Museum of Old Domestic Life
The Museum of Old Domestic Life is located in and preserves the 1858 Quaker Meeting House on East Springfield Road in High Point. This museum houses and interprets a large collection of 19th century household items, tools, photographs, portraits, and everyday artifacts from Quaker homes and families in the area. The collection also includes an unusual early homemade herbarium thought to contain specimens gathered locally.

Piedmont Environmental Center
Piedmont Environmental Center provides programs and a place to learn, conserve, and enjoy the natural world through hands-on experiences emphasizing the interrelated and fragile nature of life. Piedmont Environmental Center's main building was built with recycled materials and includes an auditorium, a classroom for school and public programs, and a Nature Store offering bird seed, feeders, and houses, field guides, nature oriented toys, miscellaneous gifts, and various books including children's nature books and an extensive North Carolina book selection. It is located on a 376 acre nature preserve and will soon feature an interactive naturalist education garden. Of interest in the permanent collection is an outdoor interactive topographic relief map - North Carolina Mapscape - a scale rendering (one foot equals ten miles) of North Carolina and portions of its surrounding states and beach area.

UNC-Greensboro
Weatherspoon Art Museum
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro collects, preserves and exhibits American artists from the turn of the century onward. Special collections include Henri Matisse prints and bronzes from the Cone Collection and the Dillard collection of works on paper. The museum also maintains an outdoor sculpture garden to compliment the gallery spaces.

Replacements, Ltd.
Although Replacements is better known for matching and supplying pattern pieces for china, glassware, crystal, silver and collectibles, the Replacements showroom also contains a small museum collection. Visitors to the showroom can view the unique and rare items including silver, Wedgwood, Fostoria Glass and Royal Copenhagen. Tours of the facility are also available to the public.

McCulloch Foundation
McCulloch Gold Mill
The McCulloch Foundation preserves and interprets the restored McCulloch Gold Mill that was built in 1832 by Cornish engineer Charles T. McCulloch and Elizer Kersey and operated as a gold mill for over thirty years. This unique structure, built in the style of a Gothic castle from local granite, is open for tours and is now also used as a popular venue for weddings and other social functions due to the beauty of the building and the surrounding grounds. Visitors can also enjoy a gem and mineral museum and gem mining seasonally at the site.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
H. Clinton Taylor Art Gallery
The H. C. Taylor Art Gallery provides a space for promoting increased awareness of the African American's contribution to the visual arts and American culture, and fosters a forum for the presentation, preservation, and exhibition of visual arts media. Named for Henry Clinton Taylor, founder of the Art Department, the gallery opened in the basement of the Dudley Building in 1956 to exhibit works by American artists. In the nearly five decades since, the gallery has emerged as a showcase for world and African American art. The collection of African American works now includes pieces by Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Lois Mailou Jones, Sam Gilliam and Varnett P. Honeywood.

Old Mill of Guilford
The Old Mill of Guilford, which is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks, was founded in North Carolina on Beaver Creek in 1767 by Daniel Dillon to grind grain for the early settlers of what is now Guilford County. The Earl of Granville granted Dillon the 552-acre tract in 1755 and Rowan County licensed him to build the mill in 1764. It was moved to its current location in 1819, where it continues to produce all-natural, stone-ground, whole grain foods, just as it has for over 250 years. Although this is a working grist mill and not a collecting or interpreting agency, the current owners are knowledgeable about the history of their mill, the Dillon Family, and the history of grist mills in North Carolina and welcome visitors during hours of operation.

Tannenbaum Historic Park
Colonial Heritage Center/Hoskins House
Tannenbaum Historic Park tells the story of everyday life in the backcountry of North Carolina during the late eighteenth century. The Colonial Heritage Center, the historic buildings, and the park grounds offer hands-on exhibits, living history presentations, and other educational programs. This park is adjacent to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and preserves some of the grounds on which the Battle of Guilford Courthouse took place known as the Hoskins House Historic District.

Guilford College
Friends Historical Collection
The Friends Historical Collection, located in Hege Library, is the center for the study of Quaker history in the Southeast, with particular emphasis on North Carolina. The collection is open to Guilford students and faculty, Friends, visiting scholars, and genealogical researchers. The collection includes the written records of Carolina Friends from 1680 to the present, printed and microfilmed copies of other Friends records, personal and family papers, the college archives, printed materials by and about Friends worldwide, and sources for the study of Quaker family history. The collection also embraces material expression of Quaker culture in the Southeast, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings, tools, metalwork, photography, architecture, and clothing.

Sit-in Movement, Inc.
International Civil Rights Center and Museum
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum, located in the Woolworth's building in downtown Greensboro, site of the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement (February 1, 1960), seeks to preserve this historic landmark, chronicle the civil rights movement in America and throughout the world, and share the history of non-violent protest for the enrichment of future generations.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina A & T State University Archives
The North Carolina A & T State University Archives makes available to the public information that has historical and administrative value to the university or has a significant impact upon the black experience in the Triad area. The majority of the information housed in the collection are institutional records and date back to the late 1890's. Other information in the collection consists of bulletins, alumni publications, student publications, budget materials, departmental publications, self-studies, directories, handbooks, information on outstanding alumni such as Jesse Jackson, Joe Dudley or Ronald McNair and other materials. The Special Collections materials include the Gerald Marteena Collection, Virgil Stroud scrapbooks, George Simkins materials and the papers of Armand Richardson.

High Point University
University Archives and Smith Library Special Collections
The University Archives at High Point University collects materials pertinent to the university and the Methodist church. This collection includes but is not limited to class photographs, yearbooks, catalogs, syllabi, self-studies and artifacts related to the college's history. Related collections include rare books and a small art and portrait collection.

UNC-Greensboro
Special Collections and Rare Books
The Special Collections and Rare Books Division of Jackson Library houses non-circulating books, manuscripts and artifacts. Collections include the Robbie Emily Dunn Collection of American Detective Fiction by Women Authors, the Randall Jarrell Collection, and the Cello Music Collection, the largest collection of cello music in the world.

Bennett College
for Women, Thomas F. Holgate Library
The Special Collections at Bennett College, located in Holgate Library, consist of the African American Women collection, the selected papers from the Palmer Memorial Institute, and Bennett College archives. The University Archives is comprised of reports, letters, papers, photographs, books and other material relating to the history of Bennett College. Special collections are currently unavailable to the public, but will be accessible when the library reopens in Fall 2003.

High Point Area Arts Council
The High Point Area Arts Council works to enhance the lives our community by encouraging full participation in a broad range of cultural and artistic activities. In addition to facilitating arts programs, the council also maintains a small permanent art collection at the Theatre Art Gallery in downtown High Point. At the High Point Area Arts Council office they maintain an archive of press releases, programs, and publicity materials relating to council activities.

High Point Public Library
North Carolina Collection
The North Carolina Collection at the High Point Public Library makes available to the public local history and genealogy research materials. Included in the collection are books, pamphlets, journals, and microfilm of pertinent state and local records. The North Carolina Collection also maintains city directories, scrapbooks, and a rare book collection including Civil War imprints.

Greensboro College
Brock Historical Museum
The Brock Historical Museum of Greensboro College seeks to foster a sense of identity, community, and pride in the College's rich history by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting archival materials and physical artifacts pertinent to the history of the College, life at the College, and the College's relation to and influence on both the surrounding communities and society in general.

Guilford Native American Art Gallery
The Guilford Native American Art Gallery is a fine art gallery concerned with promoting, exhibiting and selling premier traditional and contemporary Native art. Four annual exhibitions showcase local, state, regional and international artists. Through multi-disciplinary art and education programs, the gallery provides interaction for audiences.

Greensboro Public Library
North Carolina/Genealogical Collection
The North Carolina Collection at the Greensboro Public Library serves researchers in North Carolina History and genealogy. The collection includes North Carolina and genealogy reference, Guilford County files and records on microfilm, pedigree charts, oral history materials, and a small fiction collection. Vertical files include Guilford County files, North Carolina biographies, and a file on O. Henry (William Sidney Porter).

Old Jamestown School Association, Inc.
Jamestown Alumni Archives
The Old Jamestown School Association preserves the old Jamestown School, built in 1915, and operates the Jamestown Alumni Archives - a museum and research center housed in the old school building along with the Jamestown Public Library. The Jamestown Alumni Archives collects, preserves, and makes available to the public books, documents, photographs, and memorabilia of and relating to the school, its history, its alumni, and the history of the surrounding community.

High Point University
Sechrest Gallery
The Sechrest Gallery houses a renowned permenant collection of 18th and 19th century American and European art as well as rotating exhibitions of various contemporary artists.

Jamestown Public Library
North Carolina/Genealogical Collection
The Jamestown Public Library provides circulating and non-circulating materials relating to Guilford County and North Carolina history. A collaboration with the Guilford County Genealogy Society provides genealogy journals and research to library patrons while the reference section provides basic North Carolina facts. A small circulating collection includes fiction, biography, local history and regional cookbooks.

Greensboro City Beautiful
David Caldwell Historic Park
The David Caldwell Historic Park's mission is to educate visitors about David and Rachel Caldwell's lives and work and David Caldwell's legacy as an educator, minister, and statesman within the larger picture of everyday life in 18th century Guilford County, North Carolina. Cadlwell moved to Guilford County in 1765 and died here in 1824. He served the community as the minister of Buffalo Presbyterian and Alamance Presbyterian churches, as a physician, and as founder of "Log College," which educated many prominent men of the day. Caldwell's home and school were in the area adjacent to Tanger Family Bicentennial Gardens, with the David Caldwell Historic Park situated on a 550-acre farm. Archaeological investigations have found evidence of the foundations of the original Caldwell house. Stones now mark the foundation boundaries of the cellar, and investigations continue on-site to determine other features on the Caldwell's land.

UNC-Greensboro
University Archives and Manuscripts
The University Archives contains the records of all presidents and chancellors, many vice chancellors, departments and schools, and University committees and offices as well as student organizations. The University Archives of UNCG is one of the most comprehensive and accessible university archives in the country. The Manuscript Division houses approximately 300 individual collections. Particular strengths of the collection include papers of 20th century writers, the fine and performing arts, women's studies, people associated with the University and records of business and political leaders of the Piedmont Triad. Materials related to the history of nursing and physical education and dance are also represented. Also housed in this department is the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project which documents the contributions of women to the military.

Moses Cone Memorial Hospital
Greensboro Medical Historical Library
The archive has a fascinating collection of artifacts and manuscripts documenting the history of medicine and medical practice particularly in the Guilford County area. There are over a hundred collections from physicians and nurses such as Dr. William Norment, Dr. Edgar T. Sikes, Dr. Roderick M. Buie, Dr. Wesley Long, Dr. Herbert Z. Lund, Dr. Allen Coggeshall and head nurse Callie Sheppard.

Rosetta C. Baldwin African American Museum
Honoring the Legacy of Rosetta C. Baldwin and other African Americans that made a contribution to the development of High Point is the mission of the Rosetta C. Baldwin African American Museum. Rosetta C. Baldwin taught four generations of children from her home and worked with the city to build a church in her community.